Hi all,
I'll try to make this a short email, but apologies if it runs long.
I'm running Snow Leopard, VMWare Version 3.0.0 (204229), and Windows7 Professional as the guest OS. I need to be able to have a website in IIS on Windows7 point to a folder on the host OS. In a previous environment (Vmware 3 running XP), I just turned on VMWare sharing, and pointed the IIS home folder to
vmware-host\Shared Folders\my\folder\, and it worked.
That doesn't seem to work in IIS7. In IIS7, I configure the "Physical Path" to be
vmware-host\Shared Folders\my\folder, and then I set the username/password to be the domain\username/password of my Windows7 account. If I do that, and then test the connection, I get the error I've attached.
I am able to get IIS to recognize the host OS folder if I use SMB...however it only works if I set "Everyone" permissions in OS X sharing to "Read&Write". Of course, this means that anybody on the same network as my computer could wipe out that folder--and obviously, that's not what I want.
So it seems like there's some permissions problem here that I just can't figure out. My dim memory of my XP configuration days is that I changed the user account under which the WWW publishing service ran, but if I try to do that in Windows7, I get this message:
Error 1079: The account specified for this service is different from the account specified for other services running in the same process.
...and of course, I have no idea what those "other services" might be.
I'd appreciate any help, though please don't tell me "just put your files on the guest OS".
Thanks in advance.